<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">June 24, 2020</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This announcement was posted on the Sign Language Linguist List (SLLING). It sounds interesting!</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">HMorgan <<a href="mailto:0000001d4c901ed6-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU" class="">0000001d4c901ed6-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">1st Call for Papers: workshop on African sign languages</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">June 24, 2020 at 6:17:31 AM PDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU" class="">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">linguists interested in signed languages <<a href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU" class="">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Call for Papers: </b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">5th Workshop on African Sign Languages at WOCAL10 • <a href="http://www.sign.wocal.net/" class="">www.sign.wocal.net</a> </b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Leiden University will host the 10th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL10) on June 7-12, 2021. This conference will feature the 5th consecutive workshop at WOCAL dedicated to research on African sign languages and African signing communities. Presentations and posters will be included on topics that include, but are not limited to: </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">• descriptions of African sign languages in any linguistic domain </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class=""> (phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology, syntax, pragmatics, discourse)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">• documentation, preservation, and archiving of African sign languages</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">• comparison of African sign languages with other languages within and outside Africa</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">• sociolinguistic variation and change in sign languages in Africa</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">• first and second language acquisition of African sign languages </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">• gestural repertoires in Africa </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">• ethnographies of African deaf communities</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">• cultural practices of deaf African individuals and communities</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">• sign language and deaf education in Africa</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">• language policy in African countries as it pertains to sign languages and deaf communities </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Submission information:</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Submit abstracts through the main conference portal on EasyChair. See WOCAL CfP here: <a href="http://2021.wocal.net/call-for-papers/" class="">http://2021.wocal.net/call-for-papers/</a> Abstracts may be written (English, French) or signed (International Sign, ASL, LSF). For instructions on how to submit a signed abstract, see here: <a href="http://2021.wocal.net/african-sign-languages-workshop/" class="">http://2021.wocal.net/african-sign-languages-workshop/</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Deadline for submission:</b> November 30, 2020</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Notification of acceptance:</b> January 31, 2021</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Contact:</b> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">For questions, contact <a href="mailto:wocal.slworkshop@gmail.com" class="">wocal.slworkshop@gmail.com</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Workshop committee:</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Evans Burichani, <i class="">chair</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Yédê Adama Sanogo, <i class="">vice chair</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Hope Morgan, <i class="">secretary</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Victoria Nyst, <i class="">local committee liaison</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Yves Beosso, <i class="">PR, member-at-large</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Local workshop team (Leiden):</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Victoria Nyst</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Hope Morgan</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Timothy Mac-Hadjah</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Mariana Martins</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Marta Morgado</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Anique Schüller</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>________________________________________________
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